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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

John Maynard Keynes

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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Citizenship Important Inflation Process Secret
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Address Change Evidence Mindset
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Animal Market Move Reason Spirit
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision

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